Music with Italian

Course Introduction

The Music Department received the highest rating for research in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). You will benefit from Royal Holloway's long'standing international reputation for the study of early music. You will have access to major performance spaces on campus as well as several music technology spaces with the latest industry'standard hardware and software. You will be studying at a top'ranking languages department with an outstanding research record. The School of Modern Languages offers excellent quality equipment and dedicated language learning facilities.

Course Modules

Music Year 1: theory and analysis; practical musicianship; creative composition techniques; practical composition skills; a very short history of music; introduction to historical musicology; introduction to world music; contemporary debates in music; solo performance; creative ensemble performance. Year 2: studies in music analysis; studies in composition; studies in music history; studies in ethnomusicology; studies in music, media and technology; practical performance. Year 3: composition; musicology; theory and analysis; performance. Italian Year 1: intensive Italian for beginners or advanced Italian; the heritage of Dante and the renaissance; building the Italian nation: heroes and anti'heroes from Pinocchio to the leopard; fascist Italy. Year 2: advanced Italian 2 or advanced Italian 2 for post beginners. Optional courses: Dante's comedy (themes and ideas); post'war Italian cinema; renaissance transgressions (Aretino, Cellini, Bruno); Italian crime fiction; Boccaccio'Decameron. Year 3: placement year. Year 4: advanced oral and communication skills; advanced Italian 3 (translation from and into Italian); essay in Italian; Dante (the divine comedy, Paradiso); of women, knights, weapons and loves: the Italian chivalric tradition; shooting history (dictatorship, terror and crime in Italian film); Italian fashion and design; link essays; approved topic; from aestheticism to the avant'garde.

Duration & Attendance

Qualification

Tuition fees

3 years
Full Time

BA (Hons)

£15,200 Academic year. First year overseas fees

3 years
Full Time

BA (Hons)

£9,000 Academic year. First year home fees

Qualifications required:

GCE A-level ABB-AAB

European Baccalaureate 80%

International Baccalaureate 32

SQA Advanced Higher AB

Course specific

BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D

BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDD

SQA Higher

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